¹These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe to do in the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess it, all the days that you live on the earth.

¹To so postave in sodbe, na katere vam je paziti, da jih izpolnjujete v deželi, ki ti jo je dal GOSPOD, Bog tvojih očetov, da jo posedete, vse dni, dokler boste živeli na zemlji.

²You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree:

²Ugonobite docela vse kraje, v katerih so narodi, ki jih dobite v last, služili svojim bogovom, na visokih gorah, na hribih in pod vsakim zelenim drevesom;

³and you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods; and you shall destroy their name out of that place.

³in zrušite njih oltarje in zdrobite njih poslikane stebre in z ognjem požgite njih Ašere in podobe njih bogov posekajte, tudi njih ime potrebite iz teh krajev.

⁴You shall not do so to Yahweh your God.

⁴Ne delajte pa tako GOSPODU, svojemu Bogu,

⁵But to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, even to his habitation you shall seek, and there you shall come;

⁵temuč iščite njegovo prebivališče na mestu, ki si ga izvoli GOSPOD, vaš Bog, izmed vseh rodov vaših, da ustanovi ondi ime svoje. In tja prihajajte,

⁶and there you shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the wave offering of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock:

⁶tja tudi prinašajte žgalščine in klalščine in desetine svoje in podvig iz rok svojih in obljube svoje in prostovoljna darila in prvorojeno govedi in drobnice svoje,

⁷and there you shall eat before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which Yahweh your God has blessed you.

⁷in tam jejte pred GOSPODOM, svojim Bogom, ter veselite se vi in vaše rodbine vsega pridelka svojih rok, ki ti ga je blagoslovil GOSPOD, tvoj Bog.

⁸You shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatever is right in his own eyes;

⁸Ne delajte tako, kakor delamo mi danes tu, vsakdo, karkoli se mu vidi prav:

⁹for you haven’t yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which Yahweh your God gives you.

⁹zakaj zdaj še niste prišli v pokoj in v dediščino, ki ti jo da GOSPOD, tvoj Bog.

¹⁰But when you go over the Jordan, and dwell in the land which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, and he gives you rest from all your enemies around you, so that you dwell in safety;

¹⁰Toda ko preidete Jordan in boste prebivali v deželi, ki vam jo pripravlja v dediščino GOSPOD, vaš Bog, in ko vam da pokoj pred vsemi vašimi sovražniki naokrog, da boste prebivali brez skrbi,

¹¹then it shall happen that to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to Yahweh.

¹¹tedaj bodi tako: na mesto, ki si ga izvoli GOSPOD, vaš Bog, da bi ondi prebivalo njegovo ime, tja prinašajte vse, kar vam zapovedujem: žgalne in klalne daritve in desetine svoje in podvig iz rok svojih in vso izbiro obljub, ki jih obetate GOSPODU;

¹²You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your sons, and your daughters, and your male servants, and your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

¹²in veselite se pred GOSPODOM, svojim Bogom, vi in vaši sinovi in hčere in vaši hlapci in dekle in levit, ki je v vašem mestu, ker on nima deleža, ne dediščine kakor vi.

¹³Take heed to yourself that you don’t offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see;

¹³Varuj se, da ne daruješ žgalnih daritev svojih na katerembodi mestu, ki ga ugledaš,

¹⁴but in the place which Yahweh shall choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.

¹⁴temuč na mestu, ki ga GOSPOD izvoli v enem tvojih rodov, ondi daruj žgalščine in ondi izvršuj vse, kar ti zapovedujem.

¹⁵Notwithstanding, you may kill and eat flesh within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to the blessing of Yahweh your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle, and as of the hart.

¹⁵Vendar pa smeš po vsej želji duše svoje klati in jesti meso v vseh svojih mestih, po blagoslovu GOSPODA, svojega Boga, ki ti ga je dodelil; čisti in nečisti naj jé od tega, kakor od srne in od jelena.

¹⁶Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth as water.

¹⁶Samo krvi ne jejte, na zemljo jo izlijte kakor vodo.

¹⁷You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your freewill offerings, nor the wave offering of your hand;

¹⁷Ne smeš jesti v svojih mestih desetine žita in vina in olja svojega, ne prvostorjenega govedi in drobnice svoje, ne vseh obljub, ki jih obljubiš, ne prostovoljnih daril, ne podviga rok svojih;

¹⁸but you shall eat them before Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates: and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God in all that you put your hand to.

¹⁸ampak uživaj jih pred GOSPODOM, svojim Bogom, na mestu, ki si ga izvoli GOSPOD, tvoj Bog, ti in sin tvoj in hči tvoja, hlapec tvoj in dekla tvoja in levit, ki je v tvojem mestu, in veséli se pred GOSPODOM, svojim Bogom, vsega pridelka svojih rok.

¹⁹Take heed to yourself that you don’t forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.

¹⁹Varuj se, da ne zapustiš levita vse dni, dokler živiš na zemlji svoji.

²⁰When Yahweh your God shall enlarge your border, as he has promised you, and you shall say, “I want to eat meat,” because your soul desires to eat meat; you may eat meat, after all the desire of your soul.

²⁰Ko razširi GOSPOD, tvoj Bog, tvoje meje, kakor ti je obljubil, in porečeš: Hočem jesti meso, ker poželi tvoja duša jesti meso, po vsej želji svoje duše smeš jesti meso.

²¹If the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to put his name there, is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which Yahweh has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates, after all the desire of your soul.

²¹Ako bode daleč od tebe mesto, ki si ga izvoli GOSPOD, tvoj Bog, da tja umesti svoje ime, tedaj smeš klati od govedi in drobnice, ki ti jo je dal GOSPOD, kakor sem ti velel, in jesti v mestu svojem po vsej želji duše svoje.

²²Even as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so you shall eat of it: the unclean and the clean may eat of it alike.

²²Kakor ješ srno in jelena, tako jej od tega; nečisti in čisti naj enako jesta.

²³Only be sure that you don’t eat the blood: for the blood is the life; and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.

²³Samo v tem bodi neupogljiv, da ne ješ krvi, zakaj kri je duša, in ne smeš jesti duše z mesom.

²⁴You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the earth as water.

²⁴Ne jej je torej, na zemljo jo izlij kakor vodo.

²⁵You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh.

²⁵Ne jej je, da bi se dobro godilo tebi in tvojim otrokom za teboj, ko boš delal, kar je prav v očeh GOSPODOVIH.

²⁶Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take, and go to the place which Yahweh shall choose:

²⁶Samo svete reči svoje, kar jih imaš, in obljube svoje vzemi in pridi na mesto, ki si ga izbere GOSPOD;

²⁷and you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of Yahweh your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of Yahweh your God; and you shall eat the flesh.

²⁷in daruj žgalne daritve svoje, meso in kri, na oltarju GOSPODA, svojega Boga; in kri tvojih žrtev naj se izlije na oltar GOSPODA, tvojega Boga, meso pa smeš užiti.

²⁸Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you forever, when you do that which is good and right in the eyes of Yahweh your God.

²⁸Hrani in poslušaj vse te besede, ki ti jih zapovedujem, da se bo dobro godilo tebi in tvojim otrokom za teboj do vekomaj, ko delaš, kar je dobro in prav v očeh GOSPODA, Boga tvojega.

²⁹When Yahweh your God shall cut off the nations from before you, where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them, and dwell in their land;

²⁹Ko iztrebi GOSPOD, tvoj Bog, narode pred teboj ondi, kamor greš, da posedeš njih last, in ko se jih polastiš in se naseliš v njih deželi,

³⁰take heed to yourself that you not be ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed from before you; and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.”

³⁰varuj se, da se ne zapleteš v zanko, posnemaje jih, potem ko bodo pokončani izpred tebe, ter da ne vprašaš po njih bogovih, govoreč: Kako so služili ti narodi svojim bogovom? tudi jaz hočem kakor oni delati.

³¹You shall not do so to Yahweh your God: for every abomination to Yahweh, which he hates, have they done to their gods; for even their sons and their daughters do they burn in the fire to their gods.

³¹Ne delaj tako GOSPODU, svojemu Bogu, zakaj vse, kar je GOSPODU gnusoba, kar on sovraži, so delali svojim bogovom; saj so celo svoje sinove in hčere sežigali v ognju bogovom svojim.Na vse, karkoli vam zapovedujem, pazite, da izpolnjujete; ničesar ne pristavi in tudi ne vzemi od tega.

³²Whatever thing I command you, that you shall observe to do: you shall not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

³²Na vse, karkoli vam zapovedujem, pazite, da izpolnjujete; ničesar ne pristavi in tudi ne vzemi od tega.